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ThePenguinEnglishLibraryEditionofMiddlemarchbyGeorgeEliot.'ShedidnotknowthenthatitwasLovewhohadcometoherbrieflyasinadreambeforeawaking,withthehuesofmorningonhiswings-thatitwasLovetowhomshewassobbingherfarewellashisimagewasbanishedbytheblamelessrigourofirresistibleday'GeorgeEliot'smostambitiousnovelisamasterlyevocationofdiverselivesandchangingfortunesinaprovincialcommunity.PeoplingitslandscapeareDorotheaBrooke,ayoungidealistwhosesearchforintellectualfulfillmentleadsherintoadisastrousmarriagetothepedanticscholarCasaubon;thecharmingbuttactlessDrLydgate,whosemarriagetothespendthriftbeautyRosamundandpioneeringmedicalmethodsthreatentounderminehiscareer;andthereligioushypocriteBulstrode,hidingscandalouscrimesfromhispast.Astheirstoriesinterweave,GeorgeEliotcreatesarichlynuancedandmovingdrama,hailedbyVirginiaWoolfas'oneofthefewEnglishnovelswrittenforadultpeople'.ThePenguinEnglishLibrary-100editionsofthebestfictioninEnglish,fromtheeighteenthcenturyandtheveryfirstnovelstothebeginningoftheFirstWorldWar.